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Building? because in the 1970s, republicans were competing for the votes of southern democrats. this was the time of richard nixons southern strategy. >> how about that? >> he wanted to embrace those against the civil rights legislation. >> ergo the naming of the building. last question. how difficult is it to rename a building such as that? >> we have seen a number of buildings. we named the last few years. the old executive building is dwight d. eisenhower building. the justice departments bui...

Is it as bizarre going down the old executive building next to the white house, coming back with info and the next day going back and giving to the west wing of the white house? >> its about the same thing. >> eli, what do you make of this? whats the republican chair of the intelligence committee doing? because hes so different that hes working with mark warner to get information out. >> hes really far-out there. and if you wanted to put to rest some of these questions about his actual motivatio...

Youre not seeing the undercover agents, passive security systems in place which then try to be an early warning and additional layer of concentric security level to the white house. >> okay. i also want to add one other tidbit from the secret service were getting. no law enforcement was injured in this incident. dan merica, you are on the phone with me. what more can you tell us about what happened? >> hey, brooke, its a little unclear right now. im out on 17th street northwest outside the old e...

To protect the president, not the office of the president but the individual person. hes willing to sully the reputation of the department of justice and the fbi to do that. his process for doing that is by cherry picking pieces of information to make this can misleading claim that the fbi was somehow relying on this one piece of evidence. when you look at a fisa application, the fbi has to rely on all kinds of pieces of evidence and have to verify the accuracy of them before a judge who obvious...

Hes utilizing something that we know is tried-and-true particularly with g.o.p. listeners, but youve got it there under the auspices of the white house with the old executive building. its an interesting play. >> herman: thats one of the ways that he can get the correct message to the people. in addition to his twitter account, which a lot of people dont like, but this is how he reads about it. they follow him, and now hes going to bring it to the people. thats how youre going to do it because l...

Anderson. theres actually not a room at the white house thats called a skiff, a secure briefing room big enough for 100 senators. we have that room here in the senator, here in the capitol complex. they in fact had had to do a special sweep of anna to audito in the old executive building to fit in 100 senators so it is the reverse. >> when president trump came from the west wing, did you talk about specific policy on north korea or was it more broad? >> it was very broad. he cave opening remarks...

>> martha: earlier today i visited the ceremonial office at the executive building here in washington. watch. >> and nor were they part of the desk is a tradition in the drawer on, which is that every vice president since harry truman has signed the interior of the desk. >> martha: theres your predecessor joe biden. dick cheney. >> dwight eisenhower actually signed it. walter mondale. harry truman actually signed it twice for reasons unknown. >> martha: hed forgot he already done it. that is rem...

>> martha: earlier today i visited the ceremonial office at the executive building here in washington. watch. >> and nor were they part of the desk is a tradition in the drawer on, which is that every vice president since harry truman has signed the interior of the desk. >> martha: theres your predecessor joe biden. dick cheney. >> dwight eisenhower actually signed it. walter mondale. harry truman actually signed it twice for reasons unknown. >> martha: hed forgot he already done it. that is rem...

White house. >> thats right, wolf. we should point out the ranking democrat on the intelligence committee adam schiff has been visiting the white house to review materials offered up by the trump administration to back up the presidents claims that he was wiretapped by former president obama and we should point out in the last hour weve seen adam schiff go back and fourth from theines hour executive building into the west wedge and into the eeob and then back into the west wing and the white hou...

. and good day, im andrea mitchell with breaking news on two big stories here in washington. latest twist involving devin nunes, it the house intelligence committee chairman now admitting to meeting a secret source on white house grounds the day before his wednesday press conferences. to view information about president trumps false accusation that president obama wiretapped him at trump tower during the transition. all signs pointing to him being briefed at a secure nsc facility in the old ex...